Optimisation of Scanning Difference Pattern and Monopulse Feed

Certain radar applications may require maintaining the difference pattern slope and twin beam shape, while main null is scanning in the presence of mutual coupling. It is also desirable in monopulse radar applications to be able to generate acceptable sum and difference patterns using single simplif...

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Main Authors: Asim Ali Khan, Anthony Keith Brown
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2017-01-01
Series:International Journal of Antennas and Propagation
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/3869085
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description Certain radar applications may require maintaining the difference pattern slope and twin beam shape, while main null is scanning in the presence of mutual coupling. It is also desirable in monopulse radar applications to be able to generate acceptable sum and difference patterns using single simplified feed structure. This paper focuses on these problems and provides a solution based on Intelligent z-Plane Boundary Condition-Particle Swarm Optimiser (IzBC-PSO) to compensate for the difference pattern degradation while scanning a small coupled array (N=8). In second case, a simplified feed is proposed that only requires phase flip for 50% of elements to produce sum and difference patterns for the monopulse array, consisting of isotropic elements.
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spelling doaj-art-c8fbca126e4e4a5081a4bfce974891c52025-08-20T02:19:44ZengWileyInternational Journal of Antennas and Propagation1687-58691687-58772017-01-01201710.1155/2017/38690853869085Optimisation of Scanning Difference Pattern and Monopulse FeedAsim Ali Khan0Anthony Keith Brown1COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Lahore, PakistanUniversity of Manchester, Manchester M60 1QD, UKCertain radar applications may require maintaining the difference pattern slope and twin beam shape, while main null is scanning in the presence of mutual coupling. It is also desirable in monopulse radar applications to be able to generate acceptable sum and difference patterns using single simplified feed structure. This paper focuses on these problems and provides a solution based on Intelligent z-Plane Boundary Condition-Particle Swarm Optimiser (IzBC-PSO) to compensate for the difference pattern degradation while scanning a small coupled array (N=8). In second case, a simplified feed is proposed that only requires phase flip for 50% of elements to produce sum and difference patterns for the monopulse array, consisting of isotropic elements.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/3869085
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title_fullStr Optimisation of Scanning Difference Pattern and Monopulse Feed
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